BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Steven Rinella, the Reeths-Puffer High School graduate who this year has hosted an outdoors program on the Travel Channel, is about to premiere a new weekly TV show on a different cable network.

Contributed photoSteven Rinella prepares wild game over a camp stove on an episode of "MeatEaters."

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The switch to the Sportsman Channel affords Rinella a niche audience. Whereas the Travel Channel’s programming encompasses a wide variety of topics encompassing travel and leisure, the Sportsman Channel’s content is singular.

“We make a food-based hunting show,” Rinella said. “This show is much better tailored (than ‘The Wild Within’) to this audience. It’s a great way to find a more dedicated audience that understands the lifestyle, with a network specializing exclusively in hunting-and-fishing content. They understand (that) world.”

Rinella spent most of this fall on the road, shooting “MeatEater” episodes. The show initially will air four episodes shot in Alaska, two each in Texas and Arizona, and one each in Montana and California.

The result, Rinella said, is a program that is “a wilder, more gritty show” than “The Wild Within.” “MeatEater” is “more like the show I envisioned when I first thought about making a hunting show. This is much closer to what I was after ... to go on really intense hunts and try to translate them to television. We can do a much better job of that now.”

Because he and his production team, through “The Wild Within,” have gained more experience filming in the wild, Rinella said, “MeatEater” will have a more authentic ring than “The Wild Within.” He said the new show was filmed in locations and situations that he and his production crew previously would have thought impossible to capture.

“We wind up in situations that probably most film crews don’t wind up in,” the 37-year-old said. “We’re really out there camping, hiking long distances. ... We had some minor injuries here and there.

“We’ve just gotten really dialed in. Everybody’s gotten in peak physical shape, and our minds have just opened up to ways to do things that we would have regarded to be undoable before; to go into locations with just backpacks, and packing camera equipment on llamas. We’re able to do really exciting stuff.”

Rinella came to TV via print. He has written two books based on his experiences hunting and fishing, “The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine” and “American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon.”

Rinella said he’s working on a new, as yet untitled book, that is scheduled for release in fall 2012. As was “American Buffalo,” it will be published by Random House. Rinella said he also plans to write a book based on “MeatEater.”